Cash for Gnucash development?: Self-study course for CPE?

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 29 August 2003 04:29 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > I usually earn my hours via self-study courses, many of which are for
> > computer applications.  This year, I'm looking at paying over $100.00 to
> > learn Quicken and earn 24 hours of credit.  There's also a course for
> > QuickBooks for the same price.
>
> This is interesting to me because my company (Puget Sound Technology)
> teaches open source classes. We currently planning our fall courses to
> start include office training (in addition to administrator classes we
> already offer for a few years).
>
> We hope to provide gnucash training in our upcoming schedule (but we don't
> have course materials yet).
>
> > If the Gnucash documentation were turned into a tutorial, it could be
> > registered with the CPA Boards of each state (start with Texas, please)
> > for CPE hours.  The Gnucash developers could sell the courses, maintain
> > administrative records to meet CPE course requirements and mail CPE
> > certificates.  This doesn't prevent Gnucash from allowing people to use
> > the tutorials for free; but it allows me to divert a necessary expense to
> > Open Source development in a completely legitimate/legal/ethical way.
>
> This seems like an okay idea.
>
> Can you provide some links or leads on where to get started with getting a
> tutorial registered with CPA Boards of different states?

I will contact the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy on Tuesday; and 
will forward information to you.  Their web address is:

http://www.tsbpa.state.tx.us/

>
> Can you provide information or examples of current tutorials that gnucash
> tutorials should emulate?

Most courses use a book that's available from any bookstore.  The CPA has to 
read the book, answer multiple choice questions and, occasionally, do some 
exercises.  The answers and exercises are sent to the vendor.  After a 
satisfactory score is earned, a certificate is mailed. (Rush grading is 
available for an additional fee.)

For Gnucash, instructions for both installation and use should be included.  
Exercises would be helpful.

The links below is to a Quickbooks course from a CPE course vendors.  You can 
view other offerings on their website.

http://www.pescpe.com/CA/CA893.html

>
> Thank you,
>
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.isp-faq.com/

Unless others are interested in this topic, I will send future postings on 
this topic off-list.

Have a great weekend!

Andrew Gould